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Which teacher or staff member at Princeton Community Middle School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
1,332
Middle
DISTRICT 539 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCETON CITY·NCES 390446701553
Princeton Community Middle School
200 Viking Way, Cincinnati, OH 45246 · (513) 864-2000 · Hamilton County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,332 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 21% of Ohio public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
75 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
885 students
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 431 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 460 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 441 | 33% |
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Princeton Community Middle School→Princeton High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Princeton City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
49.6%
OH avg 59.8% . +7.9pp since 2021
Math
60.0%
OH avg 56.1% . +5.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.6% | 60.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.7% | 54.0% |
| 2022-23 | 45.1% | 55.8% |
| 2021-22 | 41.7% | 54.6% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of OH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
52.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.7%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 64% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Princeton Community Middle School
Princeton Community Middle School's state test result (52.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Princeton Community Middle School this school | 1,332 | 66.4% | 52.9% |
| Holt Crossing Intermediate School Grove City | 733 | 77.6% | 47.1% |
| Norton Middle School Columbus | 583 | 80.6% | 42.3% |
| Galloway Ridge Intermediate School Galloway | 705 | 83.1% | 42.4% |
| Pleasant View Middle School Grove City | 651 | 81.1% | 51.3% |
| Creekside Middle School Fairfield | 1,111 | 65.3% | 59.5% |
Matched among Ohio middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Princeton Community Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Hamilton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.9% | #298 of 316 | #12 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #415 of 637 ▲ 72 | #15 of 25 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.6% | #505 of 637 ▲ 33 | #17 of 25 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.7pp | #133 of 629 | #5 of 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,332 | #6 of 654 | #1 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #366 of 577 | #13 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.0% | #47 of 579 | #3 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.4% | #32 of 319 | #1 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.2% | #343 of 410 | #13 of 15 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,332
-93 (-7%) vs 2020
+31% since 1990-91, when it was 1,017
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
was 18.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,332 | 75 | 17.8:1 | 66% (885) |
| 2023-24 | 1,318 | 75 | 17.6:1 | 73% (957) |
| 2022-23 | 1,290 | 73 | 17.7:1 | 62% (794) |
| 2020-21 | 1,425 | 78 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,390 | 65.1 | 21.4:1 | 67% (927) |
| 2015-16 | 1,211 | 65 | 18.6:1 | 67% (814) |
| 2010-11 | 1,147 | 73 | 15.7:1 | 58% (662) |
| 2000-01 | 1,025 | 81 | 12.7:1 | 34% (352) |
| 1990-91 | 1,017 | 67 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Princeton Community Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (1,390 to 1,332); teachers up 15% (65.1 to 75).
About Princeton Community Middle School
Princeton Community Middle School is a public middle-grades school in Cincinnati, Ohio. It has an enrollment of 1,332 students in grades 6 through 8. That compares with an average of about 482 students for middle schools in Ohio.
Princeton Community Middle School is a school in Princeton City. The district has 11 schools and 5,927 students.
At Princeton Community Middle School, Black students make up the biggest share, 40%. Other students are 37% Hispanic, 14% White, and 6% multiracial. By comparison, Hamilton County residents are about 24% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 68, compared with 70 nationally.
Based on 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, Princeton Community Middle School has a ratio of 17.8:1. Compared with the 17.0:1 average for middle schools in Ohio, this school's ratio is higher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 66%. It compares with 34% for public schools in Hamilton County.
Among Ohio public middle schools, Princeton Community Middle School outscored 21%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Princeton Community Middle School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 52.9%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Ohio are predicted to post 63.7%, so the school is 10.8 points behind and in the state's bottom 10%.
Census data for Hamilton County show median household income comes to about $72,470, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 212 public schools in the county, enrolling about 111,403, Princeton Community Middle School among them.
Princeton High School is about 0.1 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Princeton Community Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 63.5%; Princeton Community Middle School's is 52.9%, ranking 5th of 5.
Federal data place Princeton Community Middle School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment decreased 7% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
Anyone can start a thread about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Princeton Community Middle School. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Hamilton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
830,774
Census ACS
Median income
$72,470
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
212
111,403 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Princeton City
- Princeton High SchoolHigh · 1,619 students
- Springdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 529 students
- Stewart Elementary SchoolElementary · 502 students
- Heritage Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 411 students
- Sharonville Elementary SchoolElementary · 368 students
- Glendale Elementary SchoolElementary · 267 students
Other schools in Cincinnati
- Walnut Hills High SchoolHigh · 2,453 students
- Oak Hills High SchoolHigh · 2,255 students
- West Clermont High SchoolHigh · 2,048 students
- Sycamore High SchoolHigh · 1,678 students
- Dohn CommunityHigh · 1,675 students
- Princeton High SchoolHigh · 1,619 students
Other Princeton Community Middle schools
One other US public school is named Princeton Community Middle. Princeton Community Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- Princeton Community MiddlePrinceton, IN · 437 students
Nearby schools
- Princeton High School0.1 mi · 1,619
- Glendale Elementary School1.1 mi · 267
- IDEA Greater Cincinnati Inc1.4 mi · 1,017
- Heritage Hill Elementary School1.5 mi · 411
- Instructional Resource Center2.0 mi · 26
- Woodlawn Elementary School2.0 mi · 178
Frequently asked questions
About Princeton Community Middle SchoolHow many students attend Princeton Community Middle School?
Princeton Community Middle School enrolls approximately 1,332 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Princeton Community Middle School serve?
Princeton Community Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Princeton Community Middle School have?
Princeton Community Middle School employs 75 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Princeton Community Middle School?
Student demographics at Princeton Community Middle School are roughly 14% White, 37% Hispanic, 40% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Princeton Community Middle School?
Princeton Community Middle School is overseen by Princeton City in Hamilton County.
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